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WINTER 2025: Rock My Balboa Classes
Tuesday, 19.00 – 20.00:
BALBOA Beginner+/Intermediate : Ideal for all dancers who just had a semester of Beginner+ classes or who want to catch up with their Bal.
Dates: January 14 – February 18, 2025 (6 weeks)
*UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE: DEUTSCH, ENGLISH ON DEMAND*

Here are some basic notes:

• Group maximum limited to 10 couples
• Registrations are linked to the registered person. Transfer to a different person only after check-back with Balboa, Baby.
• Partner switching is typically what we do, but will be decided by the group. Role switching might occur.
• Registration as lead/follow couples highly preferred to avoid imbalances!
• We embrace all gender identities.

Note: We highly encourage you to find a partner for class.

Admission: Each 6-week-block: € 75,-/person

Location:The Café of DREHM Pharma GmbH, Grünbergstraße 15/3/3, A-1120 Vienna
(U4 Schönbrunn, 5 mins by foot – find it here)

What is required?

You have basics in Balboa, such as basic rhythms (double time/uphold, single time/downhold), comearound, out&in, lollies and want to work on your elementals to improve your dancing..

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You want to “Entschleunigen your life”? Then learn how to dance to Slow Swing music!

If the music is really slow, you should try Laminu – and behold, Sandra & Axel are the very few persons on this planet teaching this dance!
This is an exceptional, elegant dance that provides you with the skills to swing it to slow tempo. Laminu is a sibling of Balboa from the late 1940ies and kind of an orphan dance – only very few people are still dancing Laminu, and Balboa, Baby! is one of the superfew who offer classes.

If the music is slow, but you almost want to do a Lindy to it, then Slow Balboa is your friend! This is a slow version of Balboa – hence the name – and can be danced to not-so-slow, but still mellow Swing music.

And sometimes, you need to take a dive into Blues to round up your skills.

This fall, we are offering a 6-weeks-course of Slow Dancing for Balboa dancers (aka Balboas).

WINTER 2025: Slow Dancing Jumpstart – Preparation Sessions for VBLE 2025

For all of you who want to take Slow Swing classes at VBLE 2025 and need basics in Laminu and Slow Balboa.

Dates: Tuesday, 19.00 – 20.00. | February 25 – March 18, 2025 (4 weeks)
*UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE: DEUTSCH, ENGLISH ON DEMAND*

Some notes:

• Group maximum limited to 10 couples
• Registrations are linked to the registered person. Transfer to a different person only after check-back with Balboa, Baby.
• Partner switching is typically what we do, but will be decided by the group. Role switching might occur.
• Registration as lead/follow couples highly preferred to avoid imbalances!
• We embrace all gender identities.

Note: We highly encourage you to find partner for class #KeepTheBalance

Admission: Each 4-week-block: € 50,-/person

Location:The Café of DREHM Pharma GmbH, Grünbergstraße 15/3/3, A-1120 Vienna
(U4 Schönbrunn, 5 mins by foot – find it here)

What is required?
You have no basics in Laminu/Slow Swing Dancing and want to learn basics to attend Intermediate classes at Vienna Balboa & Laminu Experience 2025.

So what does Laminu look like? Here’s the VBLE 2022 Teacher’s demo from Sandra and Axel:

Axel Schwarz and Sandra Hartbach are the founders and organizers of the Vienna Balboa & Laminu Experience – and basically the heart and soul of Vienna’s Balboa Scene. At VBLE, they will teach Laminu and the Balboa Rueda at VBLE.
Since 1998, Axel and Sandra have been dancing together, discovering, teaching and choreographing all forms of social dances.
Their deep passion for swing and jazz music ever growing, they finally started swing dancing in 2006, first focusing on Lindy Hop and Balboa.
Over the last years, they became even more curious and discovered other dances of this era, including rare dances like Laminu, Peabody, and others.
In 2009, they again started teaching Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, Laminu – and also Ballroom classes, bringing together the experience and technique of their dancing and the joy and enthusiasm of swing dancing.

Their heart is burning for Balboa and Laminu – and for musicality. When teaching, they want to pass on their experience and love for dancing and music, trying to arouse this passion in their students who eventually will bring this to the social dancefloor.
In addition to teaching and organizing events, they are DJing with original 78rpm/Shellac records and LOVE to DJ for Swing Dancers!